(201) Magazine Blogs

Monday, March 24, 2014

One day, Henrik Lundqvist will have a day at Madison Square Garden and, very likely, his No. 30 will be raised to the banners along with fellow goalies Eddie Giacomin (No. 1) and Mike Richter (No. 35).

Until then, today will just have to suffice for all the Lundqvist fanatics.

The Rangers will honor Lundqvist in a (presumably brief) pre-game ceremony in recognition of Lundqvist breaking Richter’s franchise mark of 301 regular-season wins and Giacomin’s franchise mark of 49 regular-season shutouts. All of which Lundqvist conveniently accomplished in a three-game span during the Rangers just completed 3-0-0 road trip.

Then, Lundqvist will be in the net tonight against the Coyotes as he makes his sixth straight start.

On that subject, here’s the link to today’s article in The Record strangely enough centered on Lundqvist and the unspoken fact that he’ll likely be in net for this whole playoff stretch drive. Lundqvist also would never say this publicly but this has to be his favorite time of the season because there’s no question when it comes to the lineup with regards to him. He loves playing and he loves playing a lot.

Meanwhile, the MSG Network is honoring Lundqvist with a full day of Lundqvist-centric programming. The schedule follows:

About

ANDREW GROSS covers the New York Rangers for The Record and Herald News, having joined the North Jersey Media Group in November 2007. Gross also covered the Rangers and New York Jets, as well as St. John’s basketball and Army football, for Gannett Newspapers and The Journal News (N.Y.). He graduated from Syracuse University in 1989 with a degree in newspaper journalism.